Oppo Find X Scheduled to Launch in India on July 12th

Oppo has revealed its latest flagship smartphone – The Oppo Find X at an event in Paris last month, and soon after launched the device in China as well. Now, Oppo has confirmed that the Oppo Find X will be launched in India on 12th July.

The announcement was made by Oppo’s official twitter handle, the tweet reads, “Excitement is now tantamount to perfection for the upcoming India Launch of #OPPOFindX! Catch the live streaming on July 12, 2018. Till then, wait & explore to #FindMore.”

While the company said that the launch event will be live streamed on 12th July, it has not revealed at what time the event will start. Earlier, the company had sent out media invites for the July 12 launch event in India but had not revealed the device to be launched.

The main highlight of the Oppo Find X is its unique motorised camera slider that pops in and out from the top automatically. Oppo claims that the slider has been tested over 300,000 times for durability. Furthermore, the Oppo Find X offers top-notch specs along with 3D facial recognition technology.

The Oppo Find X comes in two colour variants – Bordeaux Red and Glacier Blue. It has a shiny metal back with curved edges without any camera sensor on the front or at the back. It has a motorised slider that opens and closes automatically whenever you open or close the camera app. On the front, the smartphone has a bezel-less and notch-less display with a small chin on the bottom. The camera slider houses a dual camera setup at the rear end, and a single camera setup along with an Infrared camera, Flood illuminator, Dot projector on the front which is used for 3D facial recognition to unlock the device. As per Oppo, the sliding mechanism was tested to 300,000 slides the average person unlocks their phone 100-150 times a day.

The 3D face unlock, which Oppo calls O-Face Recognition uses 3D Structured Light Technology which scans 15,000 facial points and claims that it is 20 times safer than the fingerprint scanner.

Oppo Find X Specifications

The Oppo Find X runs on ColorOS 5.1 based on Android 8.1 Oreo operating system. It sports a 6.42” Full HD+ (2340 x 1080 pixels) AMOLED Panoramic Arc display with 19:5:9 aspect ratio, 93.8 percent screen-to-body ratio, and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection on top. The smartphone is powered by a 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 octa-core processor coupled with Adreno 630 GPU. It offers 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage. There is no microSD card support to expand the storage further.

For photography, the Oppo Find X comes equipped with a dual rear camera setup with a combination of a 16MP primary camera with f/2.0 aperture, OIS, PDFA, LED flash and a 20MP secondary camera with f/2.2 aperture. On the front, it has a 25MP shooter with f/2.0 aperture for selfies and video calls. The front camera comes with A.I. capabilities which intelligently analyze face, nose, and eyes, etc. to automatically add beautification effects to your selfies. There is also support for 3D Omojis similar to Apple’s Animoji.

The Oppo Find X is fuelled by a 3730mAh battery with VOOC fast charging support that is rated to give 2 hours of talk time with 5 minutes of charge. Connectivity options include dual-SIM support, 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 5 LE, GPS, and USB-Type C port. It measures 156.7×74.3×9.4mm and weighs about 186 grams.

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Mohammed Mujtaba khan is an IT professional focused towards the digital world, from past ten years he is been working in many tech companies including Zapak Digital, The Mobile Store, Intel Security Group - McAfee and Tally solutions. In his free time, he loves watching Sci-Fi and fantasy movies.